Session 6. The Early Universe

Display, Monday, June 4, 2001, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

6.01 Photoionization of Primordial Halos by the First Stars

D. Whalen, M. Norman, A. Razoumov (CASS, UCSD)

6.02 He/H for Cosmology: He recombination coefficients including fine structure and singlet-triplet mixing

R. P. Bauman, K. B. MacAdam, G. J. Ferland (University of Kentucky)

6.03 The Effect of the First Metals on the Evolution of Primordial Objects

V. Bromm (University of Cambridge), A. Ferrara (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri), P.S. Coppi, R.B. Larson (Yale University)

6.04 Separating the Gravitational Wave and Secondary Contributions to the Curl Component of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

M. H. Kesden, M. Kamionkowski (California Institute of Technology)

6.05 Clustering Properties of a Coherent Oscillating Scalar Field

L. Boyle (Caltech), R.R. Caldwell (Dartmouth), M. Kamionkowski (Caltech)

6.06 Cosmological Spacetimes with Galactic Sheets and Voids: Breakdown of Friedmann Models

E. P. Tryon (Hunter College and Graduate Center of The City University of New York)

6.07 Constraints on Optical Extragalactic Background Fluctuations in the Hubble Deep Fields

R. Rojas, M.S. Vogeley (Drexel University)

6.08 A Grid Based Method for the Radiation Transfer from Multiple Point Sources in the Late Redshift Universe

P. Paschos (Univ. of California at San Diego, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana/Champaing), M. L. Norman (Univ. of California at San Diego), T. Abel (Center for Astrophysics at Harvard Univ.)